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Cybercriminals Deliver IRS Tax Scams & Phishing Campaigns By Mimicking Government Vendors

Security Affairs

Threat intelligence firm Resecurity details how crooks are delivering IRS tax scams and phishing attacks posing as government vendors. The identified phishing e-mail warned the victims about overdue payments to the IRS, which should then be paid via PayPal, the e-mail contained an HTML attachment imitating an electronic invoice.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in March 2021 – 21 Million Records Breached

IT Governance

The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in March 2021 – 21 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. hit by cyber criminals (7.3

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for July 2022

IT Governance

The organisation’s head of security, Cory Hardman, said that the breach occurred when an employee at a third-party email delivery vendor downloaded the details of OpenSea users and newsletter subscribers. In April 2021, the APWG observed just over 200,000 phishing attacks. School district accidentally wires $200,000 to fraudulent bank.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.” Srivastav 2014) See Figure 1 (HistoryComputer 2021). So, at the outset, a good question to ask is What is DT ?

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

ARMA (2017) describes RIM practices as the “knowledge and skills required to systematically manage information assets from creation or receipt through processing, distributing, sharing, using, accessing, organizing, storing and retrieving, and disposing of them. Since then, travellers have mostly bypassed the travel agent.

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Ireland / Europe: DPC’s record GDPR fine has implications for calculation of GDPR fines and regulatory expectations around transparency rules

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

On 2 September 2021, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced it has imposed a €225 million administrative fine against WhatsApp Ireland Limited , as well as a reprimand and an order to bring its processing into compliance. This is the second major Article 60 draft decision which the DPC has finalised.

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New EU Strong Customer Authentication Standards: Implications for Payment Service Providers

Data Matters

However, certain EU member states, including the UK, have implemented transitional measures for a phased implementation of the rules in the context of card-based payments for e-commerce transactions. A PSP subject to the SCA requirements must also ensure the secure delivery or transmission of personalized security elements.